Zoe Saldana Quotes

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.

I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.

My problem was I let myself become known before I knew myself.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

Over a long period of time, living as if you were someone else is no fun.

We all want to be someone else but without ceasing to be ourselves. I think it's very important to defend this idea in real life too.

I don't know what else I would be if I wasn't me. I am not looking from the outside, looking back. I am who I am.

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

I've never, ever labeled myself.

I don't know that you can put a label on growth. I'm just me.

I know for myself, and maybe I'm weird or whatever, but the whole thing is about constantly redefining identity.

My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.

Everybody is constantly putting themselves under a microscope in terms of their productivity and their financial success and this whole idea of 'Picture Me Better,' like picture me, you know, who I'm supposed to be versus, you know, just accepting who we all are.

There's who you think you are and who you want to be, and then who you actually are.

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

In the beginning of 'Jersey Shore,' for sure, that was the real Mike. That's the Mike that I know, that's the Mike I love. And that's the Mike I strive to be every day.

I think I spent a lot of my mid-twenties thinking it was a problem of my onstage persona. But, actually, it was my actual personality. I was still working out what kind of person I was.

I see the ups and downs. I see the mistakes I've made. I see a funny person. I see a serious person. I see a diamond. I see the good times. I see the bad times. And I see knowledge of self. I see knowledge of self. I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”

I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself.

But this show reminds me that there are other aspects to me besides the fact that I'm a funny chick.

It's easy to forget who you are.

It's taken me a long time to realize that my own life is far more interesting than any part I'll ever play.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.